A deep cobalt sky fractures into jagged silver rain, each drop rendered in fine white strokes against the indigo. Mughal courtly dress on Indra’s hundred-eyed form suggests a deliberate fusion of Hindu myth and Persianate power—why might a 16th-century artist collapse these worlds?

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https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.134